User blog comment:Enracer/Your Teams?/@comment-31267872-20170811235216

This may surprise you, but I've never EVER traded away a vital team member. I just don't like doing that...

Note my team is not meant for PVP and tell me what I could do to improve on it without having to replace any Pokémon... I'll tell you why I have them in my team (mostly because I like them :P)

Mega Charizard Y (Starter... and I like Charmander!)

Azumarill (I thought Marill was cute so I caught it. Never knew that Azumarill was actually decent)

Leavanny (I like Leavanny, knowing it's a horrible Pokémon in battle anyways.)

Golem (I absolutely hated the move Magnitude which so many Rock or Ground Pokémon had, because my Charmeleon had not yet evolved into Charizard and gained an immunity. So I thought: Why not catch one of these Pokémon myself? I was orginally going to get Numel, but I forgot where the volcano was. I know where it is now)

Garchomp (I got it through trade... for a Dratini egg? That guy must've wanted a Dratini really badly)

Lucario (I heard you could catch the super rare Riolu on Route 8, so I went hunting for it. I caught one and for some reason swore it would always be in my party. Honestly probably the worst in my team)

Used to be in my team:

Blitzle: I gave up on this guy because he just wasn't good enough. I later evolved him into Zebstrika months after giving up on him

Tirtouga: Miraculously a female, when I didn't even care about females before Ditto came out. I got it from Lagoona Lake but it just wasn't going to work out in my team. In my team the same time Blitzle was. I evolved it into Carracosta later and currently use it for Roaming Legends

Anorith: Same story as Tirtouga, just a male and I still haven't evolved it (it's like Lv 20 or something)

Zigzagoon, Caterpie, etc.: Pokémon I caught early-game and never really thought good about using them in my team. I released Zigzagoon when I didn't have enough space in my PC and evolved Caterpie into a Butterfree (currently my Compound Eyes-Frisk-Covet slave with Noibat and Meowstic)